The British Sugar factory at Wissington, an eight-mile (13km) drive from Downham Market, is now dubbed "the largest and the ...

In early January 1889, “Professor” Henry C. Friend’s sugar con came to a crashing halt. Friend, who sometimes went by Freund and who wasn’t a professor, swindled investors for several years with his ...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story. On May 23rd, 1889, the trial of the Electric Sugar Refinery miscreants began in a Manhattan courtroom. All of the defendants were there; Olive E. Friend, ...

With beets piled high at area sugar dumps, Western Sugar Cooperative expects to refine sugar through the first of February. Ending the sugar campaign around Feb. 1 would be an early finish, but ...

Sugar is an integral ingredient in the kitchen, from sweetening up chocolate chip cookies to enhancing the flavors of meat. But with all the different kinds of sugar available -- white, brown, coconut ...

The US Department of Agriculture estimates that sugar beets account for over half of domestic sugar production. Sugar beets, produced all over the northern Great Plains, must be treated to extract and ...